Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: The ULTIMATATEST PHIGGIDY PHAT cinema!!!

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Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 03-17-2003, 09:13 PM:

Moviegoing doesn't get any better than this!

http://www.cinetransformer.com/

[thumbsup]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-17-2003, 10:15 PM:

We have 6 auditoriums already like that. They ain't be portable though. But they is phiggidy! Check 'em out yo.

http://www.film-tech.com/pics/mt.html

Posted by Matt Hale (Member # 1518) on 03-17-2003, 10:18 PM:

Oh yeah...

I saw that thing at NAB last year, or maybe it was the year before. Kind of a neat idea, but its alot smaller than it looks in pictures. Everything seems to be about 3/4 normal size, and there are some unmarked ledges where the sections collapse that are very easy to trip on. The picture was not bad at all (for projected DVD) and the sound was also quite good.

Alas, there was no popcorn popper (just a warmer for pre-popped) and the wasrooms make airplane washrooms look cavernous.

I'm sure somebody could make a living touring around the backroads of somewhere with one of these things, but you're not going to park it outside your local megaplex and steal all their customers.

[Cool]

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 03-17-2003, 10:28 PM:

Looks like someone owes Phil Hill some royalities they look like the IWERKS reactor rides he designed

Years ago we did something similar to provide dailies screening facilities on location

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 03-17-2003, 11:02 PM:

PHILL HILL DESIGNED THE REACTER??? KICK ASSS!!! I love that thing.
But the Thomson Venturer is a more realistic simulator.
While i'm on that topic, all of the DORON simulators really SUCK.

Anyway, I had a friend pick up a brochure on that thing at the NAB conference. He said that the sound system in that thing is incredible.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-18-2003, 10:51 AM:

What's the heck's a PHIGGIDY PHAT?

Posted by Andy Muirhead (Member # 712) on 03-18-2003, 06:39 PM:

There is something similar to this here in Scotland, except it isn't digital, I can't remember if it runs 35mm or 16mm. I've never seen it, It's usually used up in the highlands.

Looks like the same kind of design, basically an artic lorry which unfolds into an auditorium, seating roughly the same amount of people as the one here.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-18-2003, 06:46 PM:

Okay, so what's a PHIGGIDY PHAT? [Razz]

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-18-2003, 10:03 PM:

It's the 2001 version of "far out, man." Actually nowadays it's been supplanted by "hizzle fo'shizzle."

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-19-2003, 11:14 AM:

Thanks, Mike. I wonder how they get that?

quote:
it's been supplanted by "hizzle fo'shizzle."

No kidding? I guess I'm an oldster, because I see absolutely nothing there.
Jeepers!
[Big Grin]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 03-19-2003, 01:29 PM:

'shizo fo' nizzo'!

Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 03-19-2003, 01:38 PM:

Yo Joe! Shizzle my nizzle watup G face? Yo dawg that madstone tamrac be sick tight! It be mad tight if ya naw wat I mean mad props to madstone Dawg! Bling Bling that transportable theater do be mad Phiggidy Phat tight to da bomb. Yo! word out to my cuz peace Im out!

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-19-2003, 01:52 PM:

Sounds like something out of "Airplane!"

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-19-2003, 02:14 PM:

Ethan you need to e-mail those comments to Madstone. They will probably think it is a terrorist threat.